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2019: Week 17

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This week’s challenge comes courtesy of Jenny Martin from DS14 of The Data School and her experience in writing a dissertation on how to rig elections different voting systems: We’ve had a lot of votes in recent years and I’m sure everyone’s just about had enough by now. Naively, I used to believe that the process you use to determine the “winner” of a vote was irrelevant, surely they’re all roughly the same? Then I got to university and discovered this depressing theorem: Arrows Impossibility Theorem For elections with 3 or more candidates, there is no voting system that satisfies the following conditions: ·         Not a dictatorship ·         If everyone ranks A above B, the population should rank A above B ·         If C withdraws from the election, the ranking of A and B should not change.  I thought it would be fun to prove ...